Portable stand for golf bags



June 14,1932 w MAY 1,863,022

PORTABLE STAND FOR GOLF BAGS Filed April 27, 1951 Patented June 14, 1932 UNETEEE STATES PORTABLE STAND non GOLF BAGS Application filed April 27, 1931, Serial No. 533,346, and. in Canada March 10, 1931.

This invention relates to improvements in portable stands for golf bags, its object 1s to provide a simple and inexpensive device of this character which combines lightness and 5} portability with inherent self-acting qualities whereby the act of lifting it from one position to carry to another also forms it into a compact package, and conversely when placing it for use in another position the single act of positioning it also extends the legs to a thoroughly stable placement without any adjustment whatever. It is obvious that this combination of features renders the device eminently suitable for golfers who prefer to play without the presence of a caddie.

The salient feature of the invention resides in the mechanism which combines the carrying handle or bail-member with the hinge action to the rear legs, from which the useful functions above referred to result. In providing for these functions I adopt two levers of the first order these are spaced apart in parallelism, their long arms being united in a substantially semi-circular loop to form the bail or carrying handle, their fulcrums being on the same axis. The short arms of these levers are bent downwardly and inwardly whereby their extremities engage loops on the inner faces of the rear legs and below the axes of their hinges.

It is to be noted that the projected axes of the rear leg hinges intersect at an obtuse angle, whereby the said lever extremities engaging the loops when angled by the lifting or depression of the carrying bail are adapted to close in or spread out the rear legs, as the case may be, the particular actions noted being due to the angular setting of the rear leg hinges.

The character and functions of the invention are more clearly described by the aid of the drawing which accompany and form a part of this application and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my device in'its operative position.

Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view of it in its closed up or carryingform.

Fig. .3 is a general perspective view to an enlarged scale showing the stand with the golf bag removed therefrom, but otherwise as in Fig. 1 with the parts in greater detail.

Fig. 4 is a detail to an enlarged scale of the bail-member lever extremities and adjacent parts.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the transverse or body-member which carries the baillevers and the rear leg hinges, and it also shows the angular placement of thelatter.

Fig. 6 shows the bail lever bearings.

The drawing shows one embodiment of the invention but is not intended to set any precise limitation on the details of the mechanism except in so far as the latter may be covered by the language of the claim.

Taking the drawing in detail and'noting that similar numerals in the different views indicate identical parts, the numeral 7 identifies agolf bag of usual form, 8 the members forming the fore leg or cradle to which the bag 7 is secured. The rear legs are indicated by 9, and their hinges'by 10. The bail-member or handle 11 has its rear extremities 12 held in a pair of simple flat clips 13 which are secured by and pivot around the wood screws 14:, these latter also forming the fulcrums of the lever extremities of the bail-member 11. The lever extremities 12 are turned right angularly downwards at 15 thence taking another right angular turn at 16 so as to engage within the fiat loops 17 in each case. By this means the rear legs 9 are loosely connected with the motion of the bail-member 11, so that the lifting and positioning of the stand are coordinated therewith.

The relatively small transverse body-member 18 which is secured to the fore leg member 8 carries the fulcrums of the bail-member levers 11 at 14 and also the rear leg hinges 10, the latter being positioned as regards its immobile portion on the angular faces 19 of the body-member 18. These angular faces are so formed that the projection of their planes intersect at an obtuse angle, thus providing the means for spreading and contracting the rear legs of the stand when the bailmember 11 is operated.

Having now fully described the nature of my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

au'r OFFICE A portable stand for a golf club bag and comprising a fore leg member adapted for securing to the said golf bag, a body member secured transversely of said fore leg member and characterized by the angular face formation of its rear edge the projection of the planar surfaces corresponding to said angular faces intersecting at an obtuse angle, hinge members on each of said angular surfaces, a rear leg member secured at its upper and to each mobile portion of said hinges, a

bail member adapted to substantially encircle the body of the said golf bag. and having its extremities extended thereby forming a pair of leversfulcrumed upon a common aXisa a fulcrum pin projecting from each end of said transverse body member, means for pivoting said bail-member levers on said pin, the lever extremities of said bail-member adjacent'said fulcrum pin being bent downwardly and thence inwardly to engage the inner surface of each said leg member whereby upon the depression of said bail-member in the act ofpositioning the device during play the said lever extremities are moved outwardly from the said fore leg member and the golf bag and the saidinwardly turned ends of the levers impinge the inner surface of the rear legs so as to extend them and by reason of the'said angularity of the hinge axes the rear legs are also widened'apart to form a stable condition for the stand, and means connected to said rear legs whereby the said inwardly' turned ends of'the levers are retained in engagement with said rear legs and their angular movement limited.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my" signature.

HAROLD WENSLEY' MAY. 

